There are only two industries that call their customers ‘users’: illegal drugs and software.
Wise Words: Ursula K. Le Guin
I am going to be rather hard-nosed and say that if you have to find devices to coax yourself to stay focused on writing, perhaps you should not be writing what you are writing. And, if this lack of motivation is a constant problem, perhaps writing is not your forte. I mean, what is the problem? If writing bores you, that is pretty fatal. If that is not the case, but you find that it is hard going and it just doesn’t flow, well, what did you expect? It is work; art is work.
Wise Words: Pema Chödron
We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.
Wise Words: Robert Stone
Writing is lonely. […] But most of the time you are in a room by yourself, you know. Writers spend more time in rooms, staying awake in quiet rooms, than they do hunting lions in Africa. So, it’s a bad life for a person because it’s so lonely and because it consists of such highs and lows, and there’s not always anywhere to take these emotional states. […] It’s a life that’s tough to sustain without falling prey to some kind of beguiling diversion that’s not good for you.
Wise Words: Anne Lamott
If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise, you’ll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you’ve already been in.
Wise Words: William Least Heat Moon
When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
Wise Words: Katharine Weber
Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That’s the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what’s left, that’s the part you have to make up as you go.
Wise Words: William Shawn
Falling short of perfection is a process that just never stops.
Wise Words: James Baldwin
You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.
Wise Words: Jill Ker Conway
You never know what you’ll want to write until it starts writing itself in your head.
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